Despite the fact that I have a lot less free time on my hands the past couple of months, I’ve still managed to play League in between other games and tasks. For a while there I was playing almost daily, and multiple games per day. But as is pretty normal for me, I tapered off to about one game per night, and for the past couple of weeks it’s only been a game here and there. I still love League, I’m not sure when/if that is going to change. My play time with the game didn’t start to taper off until the latter part of March, so I still had enough videos to cut down and splice into a highlight reel for the month. This was something I had considered doing for a long time, and since I started recording all of my games back in January, it’s not only good for my YouTube channel, but it’s something else to write blog posts about as well. However, I feel like playing Normals for three months straight is getting kind of stagnant. I think it’s time that I finally get started with my Ranked placement matches, and see how far I can climb up the latter. We’re nearing mid-season, and that means that time is running out to get the ball rolling.

This season feels more tumultuous than previous ones. The pre-season changes really mixed things up, and we’ve been seeing champions that were designed to be played as a certain role excelling in multiple roles. It’s been great for the game in my opinion, but one thing that was bothering me was the fact that the games felt so much shorter and less forgiving. Bouncing back when the death timers are high was becoming nearly impossible. It seems that Riot has noticed the same thing and there have been changes to death timers at certain points in the game. It also feels like each knew patch has had more flavors of the month, rather than just one or two. What I mean by that is, in past seasons it seemed like each new patch would buff one or two champions who would be played nearly every game until the next patch, and then a new “flavor” would take over. This season, it feels like there are several “new meta” picks each patch, and as a result I’ve been playing champions I hadn’t played in a long time due to their new found power. Champions like Poppy, Pantheon and Quinn, not to mention old favorites of mine like Nocturne and Twitch have all seemed to spike in power and popularity. The constant reworks of champions (like Shen and Poppy, and the upcoming Taric rework) has brought the older ones up to speed and it feels like most of them are viable picks now. There are very few champions that have been completely neglected anymore, and I love seeing weird picks that work.

I forgot to post the video for last month here on the blog, so I’ll do so now:

Here’s the new one that I just finished editing, for March. It’s a bit shorter due to less games played but I think that’s good for people with short attention spans anyway. If you guys can do me a favor and like, share and subscribe that would also be great. I seem to have hit a subscriber wall and would like to continue to grow!

So as I said, my plan for April is to at least get my 10 placement matches in to see where I’ll start this season. It will likely be Bronze I just like last season, but hopefully I’ll promote into Silver more easily this time around. See you then.